[...] "normal application" is a term of art, describing a certain state of affairs, and there is no implication that normal application is particularly usual or more commonly encountered than its rivals, or even universally available.
- McCarthy & Prince (2004), a pag.383

Normal application is obtained when the phonological process applies after reduplicative copying.
- McCarthy & Prince (2004), a pag.387

The third relevant descriptive category is that of "normal application", whereby both base and reduplicant are entirely well-behaved phonologically, being treated as completely independent entities.
- McCarthy & Prince (2004), a pag.382